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This Week In Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • March 9, 2021
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 23, 2021
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Thorpe Moeckel

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • October 27, 2015
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Thorpe Moeckel about his new book Arcadia Road, the challenge of writing long poems, raising twins, and camo thongs.
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Books on Television

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 18, 2015
Television is a great way to sell books. Oprah’s Book Club is the best known example, but Edan Lepucki‘s bestselling debut California certainly owed some of its success to the…
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Tip of the Hat to Colbert

  • Dinah Fay
  • December 24, 2014
Among the many tributes to the nine-year run of The Colbert Report, which aired its final episode last week, comes Vulture’s tip of the hat on behalf of “book nerds.”…
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On Getting Bumped

  • Alex Norcia
  • October 3, 2014
Edan Lepucki and Stephan Eirik Clark talk to BuzzFeed Books about how their successes have been affected by the “Colbert Bump.”
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The Era of Celebrity Bookselling

  • Ian MacAllen
  • July 30, 2014
The Colbert Bump helped propel Edan Lepucki‘s California to the third spot on the New York Times bestseller list. Lena Dunham’s endorsement helped sell Adelle Waldman‘s The Love Affairs of…
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The Rumpus Interview with Edan Lepucki

  • Seth Fischer
  • July 8, 2014
Author Edan Lepucki talks to the Rumpus about publishing, the craft of writing, teaching, and what to do about the end of the world.
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Not the End of Philip Roth

  • Mary Allen
  • May 26, 2014
Philip Roth has retired! Well, not quite. Catch him on an upcoming episode of Stephen Colbert’s show for a special segment of Colbert’s book club. Read all the details on…
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Happy Birthday, Maurice Sendak!

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • June 10, 2013
Maurice Sendak, author of dearly loved children’s books like Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen, would have turned 85 today. Celebrate his unrestrained imagination and (sometimes not-so-subtle) iconoclasm…
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Steve Almond on Comedy and Politics

  • Walter Gordon
  • July 18, 2012
“Why take to the streets when Stewart and Colbert are on the case? It’s a lot easier, and more fun, to experience the war as a passive form of entertainment…
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Notable New York, This Week 4/26 – 5/2

  • Rozalia Jovanovic
  • April 26, 2010
This week in New York the sixth annual PEN World Voices Festival (PWVF) opens its week-long celebration of international writing with such notable literary figures as Sherman Alexie, Claire Messud,…
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